One can at least say that the Dear Leader is consistent. Consistently hypocritical that is: launch a war on terror to defend our freedoms while hitting the civil liberties ‘delete’ button to help the fight. The paradox seems to elude him.
With The Dear Leader casting his rheumy eyes towards a lucrative retirement on the US speaking circuit, and the uncritical adulation of our less discriminating cousins, one would hope the miserable dog would have the good manners to shut the fuck up as the retirement clock ticks down the days.
But oh no. Now the courts are consistently putting civil liberties above the fight on terror in a “misguided judgement”. Blair has instructed the Police Minister Tom McNulty to tell him what he wants to hear: the police want more powers in their fight on terror. And so he will give them what ‘they want’: the power to stop an innocent man abroad on his lawful business and not merely demand that he account for himself and his activities, but to do so on pain of a criminal offence for not being adequately cooperative and deferential.
This will assuredly amount to a new ground for the police doing what they have done in the past: stopping young black asian men on phoney pretext of criminal suspicion and investigating terrorism. This will be the introduction of a newer aggressive version of the reviled sus laws that led to Brixton riots and the alienation of youth and minorities from the community.
Geeklawyer is trying not to use the words ‘police state’ - honest.
Yes…. saw the coverage in the press.. … we live in a strange world. Thinking about this….. worrying.
I fear that Dr Strangelove, Director of Research at Muttley Dastardly LLP may have to be consulted for an ‘opinion’
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I’ve got a much better idea. Instead of all this messing about why not force muslims to wear cresent armbands. That way we can all recognise them in the street and avoid them.
oh and eventually round them up and “extraordinarily extradite” them. In the meantime maybe we could arrange an evening where we smash up all of their shops.
Yup, we definitely need a final solution to the Muslim problem. OK, that’s enough clumsy satire from me…